You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

 "Lynn, enough already, I know I make you happy when skies are

grey.  Can anyone out there hear this caterwaulin'?  I'm back already.

"If anyone 'members,  a few weeks ago this

Pest Control pest with hands the size of baseball

mitts, pounded on the glass door and scared the

bejeebers outa me."

"I have been hiding under the bed ev-furry evening

after my many hair brushin's and my very doled out

crunchies instead of giving Lynn her 3 hours of leg time.

 Then I finally decide a couple days ago that I have 

forgotten why I am doing that and got on her legs

fur TV and book time."

"Then what does she do but call some kind of

'puter geek to come fix a problem fur her. So of

course I'm back under the bed fur days again.

Then this 'puter person comes back with a new laptop

thing a ma jig and it has Windows 11 on it.  I do not

know if it has eleven windows or not.  I went back under

the bed.  But I think I may have forgotten and forgiven

her since it has been fairly quiet again.  We did have

a short thunder boomer this week that sent me flying

off her legs, but without me clawing on the way."

Dear sweet Precious, I am so sorry that all this has occured

on your watch.  I did not want any rat poison from that 

pest control person,  I did not want a PC failure, and

I did not want a new laptop.  But humans just don't

seem to live by kitty rules.  Hopefully we will have

some peace and quiet for a long time now.

I recently drove 15 miles to bike 24 round trip.

At the end of the 12 is a fantastic botanical garden

I try to visit every summer.

I was impressed by this garden artwork and will

show a few Lego giants as a blogging friend

1/2 way around the world and down under may

enjoy.  She takes her grandson to Library Tuesday Lego day.

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Nippy Video

"Lynn, I love rolling around out here on the patio."

Precious, I am just glad I caught caught you on film.

Of course, your head is out of sight.

But when ever you see me with the camera,

you stop what ever you are doing and I don't

get the pictures I want.

"I know, Lynn, we kitties are smarter than humans.

We know how we can get your goat."

I'll do orange flowers this week.  I have 1/2 dozen of

these butterfly weed plants and on the day I took this

photo, I saw my first Monarch for the year. And she

was laying eggs every where!  Add a few more butterflies

and I don't know the plants will feed them all. These

plants are in a different flower bed and I have a mix

of plants there.

So I brought in just one of the baby caterpillars one day

after it hatched.  I'll have to pick milkweed leaves from

ditch areas to feed it as it grows.  

The flowering plants I have will

have to support all the others.

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Childrens' Garden with Bee Sting

 "Lynn, a giant must sit in that chair. Maybe from Jack and the 

Bean Stalk."

I think it probably does belong to him, Precious.

When I start my ride from closest to home and go

15 miles down to the big little city, I am within a mile

of the Children's Garden.  The above mural represents

Johnny Appleseed.

And this one is for The Secret Garden.

The plantings and the miniature buildings were

all done by students of the local vocational school. 

The garden is on the school's property.

The tiny log cabin can be entered by an adult

from the side door.  The front door is meant for

little tykes.

The rose bed and the perennials and the annuals 

the students plant and tend are just beautiful.

Complete with a tiny waterfall for a frog pond.

I usually pack my lunch and stay a while.

Sitting at a table in the gazebo. 

"Hurry home Lynn, I am most concerned you

will go up the bean stalk and fe-fi-fo-fum,

you'll be done.  That'll mean my dinner will

not be served on time."

I'll post a pink flower photo from a walk around

my home area.  It is milk week with a 

Great Spangled Fritilary Butterfly.

And for those that may remember my fat lip when I kissed

the wrong end of a bee while biking. And Precious

would have nothing to do with me and my funny face.

I had another bike incident with a bee this week.

I was wearing my wrap around glasses and helmet,

and I saw I was riding right into a black and yellow

bumble bee or maybe even the larger wood borer.

He hit my glasses and then slipped in between the

helmet and goggles and got me good! Or bad.

So, the Bug Bite Thing really really does work.

If conditions are right.  I was 100 yards from a  restroom

that has a mirror.  As being stung on the left temple could

only be seen this way.  I sucked out the stinger and the

venom fairly quickly.  and thank goodness for that

as he must have stung me in a nerve, as I got an 

immediate major headache across my forehead and

into the right temple.  Within minutes of sucking out

what I could, the pain lessened as did the headache.

Once again, I was 10 miles from my vehicle and then

the drive home!

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Out 'er In, Make up your mind

 "I can't make up my mind, Lynn.  Just leave the door open."

"I might want to jump back in and get a nibble of food."

"And if the door stays open, maybe a bug or two will

fly inside.  Then I'll have somethin' to chase later.

Or you'll get a bug bite and use your bug bitey thingy."

"Even better, the chipmunk might run into the house,

thinking it is safer in since I am out.  Then I really will

have some indoor entertainment."

Oh no, Precious, you go out or in, but I'll not have that

chippie in the house.  Talk about a disaster in the making!

Bee Balm/Monarda.  Nothing pink after this until about the

first of August, then I have 9 pink sedums.

And I do not want to think of summer going so fast.

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Her Wacky Weed

 "I have my very own catnip plants.  Lynn keeps some growing 

all the time."

"This one is my very large plant outside in the

flower bed.  As you can see, Lynn keeps a metal

cage around it.  Otherwise the neighbors come for

a party and break it all down.  Then it is wilted

and no good fur eating."

"She started me a new one from a slip of plant.

It is now on the patio just fur me.  I only ever sniff

on it so far, so it can grow.  I eat the leaves from the

big one when Lynn picks them fur me every day.

She has to pick from the highest top, as the boy 

kitties around here are rather naughty.  They turn

their bee-hinds to the plant and spray!"

I have always grown catnip for my cats at home.

Here in this yard since Precious came to live, the 

outdoor cats seem to be more aggressive and 

chew and roll around than I have seen in the past.

Pink lilies. I have one perennial flower bed and I only

have pink plants, and they bloom in varying time

stages.  This will be replaced by pink tall and short

bee balm next.

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Up to the highest height

 "Lynn, neoooow, pulleeze go fly a kite, no you do not sound like Mary Poppins. Stop with the singing. I have had a furry traumatic evening."

"I'm up here 'cause yesterday at leg time,

exactly 5:30 PM, some hooman sales person

pounded on the front door with both hooman fists.

And she was selling pest control.  She was the pest.

That scared me off legs fur an hour of valuable time.

 

Then at midnight a thunder boomer struck out of the

dark night sky and sent me out of our chair to under

the bed. I always sleep in our chair and Lynn checks

on me at midnight.

So I gets up here fur the morning wind down and stay

as high away from hoomans, after my belly rub and

breakfast of course.  And what happens?!?

The mowers come!"

"I tell you, I am not under any circumstances

comin' out from under the bed.

Until time to eat."

It was not good for me either, Precious.

This woman rode up to the front porch on

a segway and rapped quite loudly on the

glass storm door.  The inside solid door stood wide open,

and who would not be home with the door open?

She yelled at me thru the glass she had not seen 

me, at the very moment when Precious growled and

launched off my lap with all claws unsheathed!

Some of my astilbe blooming. More pink.

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Wall Eyed

 "Lynn lets me go out onto the patio as much as I want. Except

for the following conditions:  too hot, too noisy outside, too wet,  too cold or if she is too busy."

                                               We did get 2 1/2 inches of much needed rain.

"She mostly stays inside at the kitchen sink or

if she has time for a read, in her comfy inside chair.

 

"She operates on the "I've got one eye on you"

program."

"You might be acquainted with the famous and

 furry handsome cowboy actor, Jack Elam.

He was furry wall eyed.  So you see, Lynn must

be wall eyed too as she keeps one on me and one

on something else."

Precious, now that you have told the world how

beautiful I must be, I am not sure if you can go

back outside or not!

Our first baby of the year!  A white tail deer fawn.

Probably 2 or 3 weeks old.  Mom leaves them in the

thick brush around our house and they soon start

moseying about. 

He made it clear 'round the house and into one

of my front flower beds.  They are only nursing now, so

the only damage they can do is with their hooves. 

And it is a boy only because looking right down onto

his tiny head, I can see his buttons!  The good thing is,

he can not have fawns himself, lol.  I like seeing more

bucks than does.  

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